You and your team
Your CoDynamics compare your own working preferences with your team's habits.
Jeff B.’s CoDynamics.
What matches. What differs.
Matches the team: Processing, Deciding, Executing
Differs from the team: Communicating
Potential tension means a different preference. It is useful context for finding support, not a judgment of suitability or ability to succeed.
Select a dimension to go to its guidance.
Your preferenceInformalInformation is shared organically among team members.
Team behaviorOrderedInformation is shared through defined processes and forums.
Your preferenceLogicalInformation is evaluated on its own merits, regardless of source.
Team behaviorLogicalInformation is evaluated on its own merits, regardless of source.
Your preferenceAuthoritativeDecisions are driven by direction from team leadership.
Team behaviorAuthoritativeDecisions are driven by direction from team leadership.
Your preferenceSpontaneousLightweight plans favor agility and adaptability.
Team behaviorSpontaneousLightweight plans favor agility and adaptability.
How to read your fit
Natural fit means your preferences align with the team's approach. These situations may feel more comfortable.
Potential tension means you prefer a different approach. Recognizing these situations helps you prepare and ask for support.
Your preferenceInformal
Team patternVery strongly Ordered
Your natural preferences tend towards more organic and flexible means of gathering and sharing information than how the team typically behaves
- Ask the team to make it easier for you to engage with the rest of the group by clarifying expectations around structured communications (”What information do we share, when, and how do we do so?”) and by developing guidelines and templates for the team’s most common mechanisms for sharing information
- Look out for situations in which your team is tasked with solving creative problems that require new models, frameworks or concepts; in these moments, your natural tendency towards a more free-flowing, organic approach to information exchange will help you adapt more quickly to the situation at hand
Turn a conversation into a usable handoff
Your team’s Communicating style is Ordered; you prefer Informal. If a useful conversation changes someone’s work but the outcome never reaches them, a short recap can connect your conversational approach with the team’s usual channel.
Try this: After your next spontaneous change of direction, add the changed next step and owner to the team’s existing channel. Check with the affected person before they continue.
Look for: The affected person can explain what changed and what they will do next.
Explore this practiceYour preferences as a leader
Your own preferences shape what feels natural to you as a leader. Where you fit, watch for blind spots you share with the team and bring in perspectives you might both overlook. Where you differ, use that perspective to help the team flex.
Turn the example into your result
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